ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 138740
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| Date: | Saturday 9 December 1972 |
| Time: | 09:40 LT |
| Type: |  Cessna F172H Skyhawk (Reims) |
| Owner/operator: | Air Navigation & Trading Co Ltd |
| Registration: | G-AYDC |
| MSN: | F172-0718 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | off Humphrey Head, Grange-over-Sands, Morecambe Bay, Lancashire -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Ferry/positioning |
| Departure airport: | Blackpool, Lancashire (EGLK) |
| Cark, Flookborough, Lancashire | |
| Investigating agency: | AIB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Fatal crash 9/12/1972 at Humphrey Head, Grange-over-Sands, near Morecambe Bay, Morecambe, Lancashire, 20 minutes after taking off from Blackpool Airport (EGLK) on a VFR flight to Cark, Lancashire. The official AAIB report concluded that the crash was due to engine failure caused by carburettor icing:
"Approximately 20 minutes after leaving Blackpool Airport on a VFR flight to a landing ground at Cark, Lancashire, witnesses near to Cark heard the brief sounds of an aircraft engine followed by a crash. Weather conditions at the time in the area were rain with icing and poor visibility. There were no eyewitnesses to the crash.
The wreckage of the aircraft was found below the high water mark in Morecambe Bay, about one mile south east of Cark. The pilot, who was the sole occupant, had received fatal injuries. The AAIB report concludes that the accident was the result of loss of control, consequent upon the pilot encountering bad weather conducive to serious carburettor icing, recovery from which presented him with a task beyond his experience and training."
All the wreckage was contained within a 20 foot radius of the impact site, and the damage pattern indicated a high speed impact consistent with a spiral dive to the left. There was a complete break up of the port wing; the engine and nose landing gear had been pushed back into the cockpit area, and the fuselage had been 'telescoped'. The starboard wing had been broken at the root, and had been rotated forward.
A few minutes after the accident, a local man, curious about an unidentified object on the mud flats in Morecambe Bay, walked over the sand and mud flats to where G-AYDC had impacted into the ground. He was unable to release the pilot from the wreckage, so alerted the police. coastguard, and emergency services.
The AAIB report names the pilot fatality as Mr. Alan Lindley, CFI (Chief Flying Instructor) of Air Navigation & Trading Co Ltd. Registration G-AYDC formally cancelled as by the CAA as aircraft "destroyed" 9/7/1973.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
1. http://www.aaib.gov.uk/cms_resources.cfm?file=/9-1974%20G-AYDC.pdf
2. http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/HistoricalMaterial/G-AYDC.pdf
3. [LINK NOT WORKING ANYMORE:http://coptercrazy.brinkster.net/search/f172show.asp?start=701&count=50]
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 26-Sep-2011 05:27 | Uli Elch | Added |
| 27-Aug-2012 16:53 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 31-Jul-2015 18:23 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Location, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 31-Jul-2015 18:29 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
| 31-Jul-2015 19:36 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Destination airport, Narrative] |
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